We have a treat for you! This episode was recorded live at the Philosophy of Education Society’s 2019 Annual Meeting in Richmond, Virginia! To discuss issues of teacher demoralization, we gladly welcome Doris Santoro (Bowdoin College) author of the book, Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay. In addition to Santoro’s philosophical remarks, our panel discussion features Allison Fleming (a teacher from Hanover County Public Schools), Jesse Senechal (Director of the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium and author of Understanding Teacher Morale), and David Naff (Assistant Director of MERC and host of the podcast Abstract). Enjoy!

A special announcement regarding the series.

We are proud to converse with Avi Mintz (University of Tulsa). Our discussion covers much ground as we engage the concepts of pain/struggle in education and consider what a pluralist approach to the field of philosophy of education might yield. Please find links to the work referenced in this episode here, here, and here.

We welcome Tal Gilead (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) to the program as he discusses economics, happiness, and the role of philosophers in educational scholarship.

Ben Kotzee (University of Birmingham) sits down with us to discuss issues of epistemology in contemporary philosophical work on education. Among a host of other queries, we consider what constitutes a good thinker, how we might best understand intellectual virtues, and the true value of a formal education.

This month, we converse with Megan Boler (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto). Our discussion covers issues regarding the role of emotions, the democratic possibilities of digital communications, and very much more. This is sure to be an informative and illuminating episode.

We begin the year in the wonderful company of Nicholas C. Burbules (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). In this episode we discuss accidental beginnings and work that bridges philosophical traditions. Additionally, we converse about the nature of dialogue and the role that technology might play within its contours. Please find links to the papers discussed in this interview here, here, here, here, and here.

We end the year with a rich and fulfilling conversation with Dwight Boyd (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto). In this episode, we discuss links between psychology and philosophy, and a growing dissatisfaction with liberalism. For more, please find your way to his latest book, Becoming of Two Minds about Liberalism. http://tinyurl.com/ztpq4t

We have an engaging conversation with Kip Kline (Lewis University) about the possibilities of philosophical work in education at the intersection of media and postmodernism. Please find his latest book, Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film: Fatal Theory and Education.

We are very fortunate to have Jan Masschelein (University of Leuven) kindly share his thoughts on education's relationship to emancipation, his recollections of the Frankfurt School, the limits of critique, and becoming especially attentive to the subject of one's study amidst uncomfortable circumstances. Please download his new book, In Defense of the School.